Council District 4
The East Side of Manhattan, including Midtown East, Murray Hill, parts of the Upper East Side, and Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village. About twenty minutes, run live.
What the session covers
Every act asks the same question twice: once through an ordinary web search, once through a connector reading the City’s own records. The searches are real, re-run on 2026-10-19 and summarized on the slides — the comparison is not staged.
- Who the member is, the one question a web search handles well.
- Your district right now: the top 311 complaints for the last 30 days.
- Your roll call: every vote this term, each with a file number.
- Your discretionary funding, by organization, from the Council’s own disclosure.
- A law you can cite, from the Charter, Administrative Code and Rules rather than a blog.
- What is in front of the Council this week, and which agendas are final.
What it is honest about
The material carries its own limits on the slide rather than in a footnote. Where a figure was verified on a particular date, the date is on the slide, and the presenter notes say which figures to re-run the morning of the meeting.
For staff running this: the deck works with no network. Arrow keys move, N opens presenter
notes, G is a slide grid, F goes full screen. The demo script is the source of truth for figures
and provenance; the deck carries the same warnings in its notes.